Supersex sexuality, fantasy, and the superhero

"Despite the frequently form-fitting costumes and prominent secondary sex characteristics, superhero sexuality has rarely been discussed seriously. Besides homoerotic accusations directed at Batman & Robin and Wonder Woman in the '50s and Larry Niven's seminal essay "Man of S...

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Otros Autores: Peppard, Anna F., editor (editor)
Formato: Libro
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Austin : University of Texas Press 2020
Edición:First edition
Colección:World comics and graphic nonfiction series
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: Presence and Absence in Theory and Practice: Locating Supersex / Anna F. Peppard
  • Comics. Tarpé Mills's Miss Fury: Costume, Sexuality, and Power / Richard Reynolds
  • Superman Family Values: Supersex in the Silver Age / Matt Yockey
  • A Storm of Passion: Sexual Agency and Symbolic Capital in the X-Men's Storm / J. Andrew Deman
  • Dazzler, Melodrama, and Shame: Mutant Allegory, Closeted Readers / Brian Johnson
  • Super-Gay Gay Comix: Tracing the Underground Origins and Cultural Resonances of LGBTQ Superheroes / Sarah Panuska
  • Parents, Counterpublics, and Sexual Identity in Young Avengers / Keith Friedlander
  • Film, Televison, and Fan Culture. X-Men Films and the Domestication of Dissent: Sexuality, Race, and Respectability / Christopher B. Zeichmann
  • Over the Rainbow Bridge: Female/Queer Sexuality in Marvel's Thor Film Trilogy / Samantha Langsdale
  • No One's Going to Be Looking at Your Face: The Female Gaze and the New (Super)Man in Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman / Anna F. Peppard
  • The Visible and the Invisible: Superheroes, Pornography, and Phallic Masculinity / Jeffrey A. Brown
  • I Think That's My Favorite Weapon in the Whole Batcave: Interrogating the Subversions of Men.com's Gay Superhero Porn Parodies / Joseph Brennan
  • That's Pussy Babe!: Queering Supergirl's Confessions of Power / Olivia Hicks
  • Meet Stephanie Rogers, Captain America: Genderbending the Body Politic in Fan Art, Fiction, and Cosplay / Anne Kustritz
  • Epilogue: The Matter with Size / Richard Harrison